Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

30.95.123

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 95mm
Width: 109mm
Depth: 9mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd blowing into a shawm.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Beaded border.

Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Inscription in pencil: '4'.

Object Condition
Left wing cracked around the upper hinge.

Provenance
Collection of Theodore M. Davis (b. 1837, d. 1915); bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915.

Bibliography
French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, exhibition catalogue, Yokohama, Yokohama City Museum, 1989, no. 14.

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